co-written by john heilemann and mark halperin. inside the book they said the plan was for mccain to shock the world with his vice presidential pick. mccain's core conviction was that mccain vp choice had to be a game changer. joining us from new york, thank you for being with us on c-span. >> great to be with you, steve. >> hi, steve. >> mark halperin, let me start with you. why four years later are people talking and writing about the toile campaign and now your book turned into an hbo film? >> well, i think several reasons. the main one being it was, as we say in the subtitle of the book, the race of a lifetime. you had lots of bigger than life candidates and candidate's spouses competing for a race, open seat in the white house with the kind of plot twists and turns if you brought to hollywood as fiction, they would throw you out and say this is too implausible. i can list them off, selection of sarah palin, role of the former president as a campaign spouse of bill clinton, the story of john mccain's collapse and comeback and j

mark halperin: right. tell me what you think donald trump's floor and ceiling and -- in the popular vote are right now. ken goldstein: i think -- mark halperin: the four-way popular vote. ken goldstein: i think the floor is 37, 38, and the ceiling is 42, 43. a very narrow range. mark halperin: so 43 he can't , win basically what you're telling us. ken goldstein: i think if you have -- i think hillary wins by five. mark halperin: if he gets down to 37, does that mean the republicans lose the house or not necessarily? ken goldstein: when things go crazy -- people talk about there's got to be a wave or not a wave and to talk about the way -- wave too early. when these things happen, mark and i first met at abc many, many years ago. i think we met in a midterm election. when crazy things start happening is when it is the last weekend, and you are like that , race is competitive. so i think it would be difficult for the democrats to take control of congress, but if you see a complete explosion, we've already ha

thank you. >> so mark halperin, take us back to that moment. and your reporting on this book. >> well, it is a charming moment. because it's one of the rare moments where sarah palin seemed to my ear at least even a little bit nervous walking out on that stage. then as i said in the debate she did pretty well and found her voice. she did refer to him as o'biden in debate prep and the advisers were worried that would be branded as kind of a gaffe and illustration of her ability to think on her feet coming after the katie couric interview that she did. a series of interviews with katie couric that hadn't gone well and that had exposed for some viewers and voters weaknesses in governor palin's ability, again, to think on her feet and to be knowledgeable about things. for most candidates it would just be seen as kind of a funny gaffe. they were worried it would take on larger symbolic meaning and criticis criticism if it happened in the debate. they said, call him joe. she said i don't know. how can i call him joe? so she decided to ask him for per

our mark halperin is in louisville, kentucky. and we moved to chicago, a vote in chicago, rahm emanuel doing better than good. our peter cook is in chicago. will streaming kill cable? we will speak to leo hindery about that and our matt miller will do that in the 8:00 hour as well. the glass of the oil business is not new. what is different this time? what lessons can told the oklahoma and texas learn about the do advanced petroleum. looking back to his native oklahoma, frank keating, 24th governor of oklahoma, this time it's different for stop what is different about this oil bust? governor keating: technology. when i was a high school student, my father said i have got college paper you and your twin brother, but i'm getting out of the drilling business will stop i cannot make any money on three dollar oil, they have found all the oil they are going to find anyway. that was years ago. fracking, the technology of horizontal drilling, all of this is new and really remarkably significant for america's energy security. tom: i saw a

mark halperin let me ask you how the idea for the book came about before the 2008 campaign. when the two of you decided to collaborate. and how you have applied maybe some of the lessons from 2008 to your current work in the 2012 campaign. >> well, we were coming back from annapolis where senator mccain was doing an event on his biography tour. this was a pretty good idea about what he should do with his time after he won the nomination in a de facto way, mike huckabee and mitt romney getting out. hillary clinton and barack obama were still very much contending in the spring of 2008 for the democratic nomination. it was a great idea to go on this biography tour to visit all the places he'd been, lived in the united states and try to associate some sort of theme with him. but the execution was pretty bad for most of it. including the event in annapolis where he spoke at the naval academy at the football stadium, an incredibly windy day. i won't go into the details. it wasn't the best executed event i've ever seen. we parked, i was doing something with c-span that day. we park

and you see there joe scarborough and mark halperin in the stands biting their nails. chelsea takes the lead 1-0. and in the 92nd minute, chelsea finds another opportunity. 2-0 the final. and i think that joey scarborough is sipping a glass of champagne and joe scarborough is -- >> not happy. but he loves soccer. >> and mark halperin was just happy. >> how about that sports report. >> lewis, you did okay. >> excellent. >> let's go to the ice. and the head moves to the side. >> don't have your maternal intingts. >> i thought it was great. >> you were okay. i know you're tired. >> work to be done. >> lewis, your mom loved it. >> she did. >> i loved it. >> that was for you, mom. i'll do better next time. these scripts have nothing on them. >> i know. you're unbelievable. what can i say? >>> coming up, everyone is weighing in on the alleged racist remarks by owner donald sterling even though the nba is

that i see how he is the subject of ridicule and attack. >> mark halperin. as you were speaking tonight i was taking notes and your exact quote and since your name was invoked what did you make of that exchange? >> melania trump could have done her riff on cyber bullying and said "therefore i'm endorsing hillary clinton for president." it's such a strange thing it's literally one of the things he's best known for and criticized for that she says is a problem for the country, she once said i wish my husband would tweet less but of all the things she could have chosen, the best thing we can say is she has a good sense of irony. >> steve schmidt, we know there can be communication issues between the number one and two on a ticket but twine spouses at the top is rare that that issue wouldn't have gone through the issue machine generator. >> i wonder if it's not purposeful. look, i think that we shouldn't discount what melania trump said. that was melania trump speaking and melania trump through this campaign has handled herself with class and with dignity. there

mark halperin, senior political analyst for "time" magazine and john heilemann, national affairs editor for "new york magazine." great to have you here. this is a huge event. i have to ask you the hollywood question first. what was this like for you guys to be involved in the film in your capacity having written the book "game change" based on the '08 election and then translating that into the big screen? >> if people are looking to do the game change about making the "game change," they're going to be disappointed. there was no drama. we looked at the big opportunity to tell the story of 2008 before we thought of writing a book. we said someone should do a movie. we sold it to hbo before we even had written the book. they were interested in collaborating. they were great to work with. they had such a concern about making the movie accurate. and they also were very concerned about the whole thing feeling to even insiders accurate and that's what they ended up doing. >> i want to get to that. i did feel that. what was so cinema to you? >> you had already had 15 months of hillary clinton

. >> mark halperin with us. also at the london olympics, willie geist. >> we have him too. >> yeah, we do. >> i'm feeling so selfish. i feel like romneyhood. >> okay. >> i mean seriously. willie, david brooks, this past week, wrote a column talking about what a stupid campaign this is. mika a few weeks ago was saying it's a seinfeld campaign, campaign about nothing. >> evan thomas said it was pathetic. >> evan thomas, a guy we all like and respect and has been covering these, said these campaigns are pathetic. and i mean seriously. romneyhood, obamaloney? is this like fourth grade student council? these guys are jokes. >> i was listening to that sound bite coming in obamaloney, obamaloney, and i turned to dana our producer and i said i think we're just going to stay here. i can't come back into that. if it's even worse from a distance. >> it doesn't work. i mean -- a lot more exciting just to try to work the zip wire with boris johnson, the mayor of london. this really is pathetic, mika. it is pathetic. >> we'll

i am a bloomberg politics managing editor mark halperin, along with mark crumpton. you see some members leaving the voting. the voting has begun for the first ballot for majority leader eric cantor to be replaced almost certainly by kevin mccarthy of california. we will be following that election and the one that is more up in the air, the number three position, whip. we will go back to washington. douglas holtz-eakin is the head --the american -- uh, doug american action form, and former advisor to john mccain. for this election we have talked about what the ramifications are for policy and the markets. what do you think of the ramifications are in terms of the brand of the republican party? is this an opportunity for some unknown people to get a fresh start in dealing with the public in a different way? >> i think the most important issue is the internal cohesiveness of house republicans. i was greatly strengthened in the aftermath of the government shutdown -- that was really strengthened in the aftermath of the government shutdown. people realized that was a mis

mark halperin, you've been watching this. susan rice with -- on "meet the press" and several of the other shows with david gregory on "meet the press" and when she was sticking to the narrative, in part, sticking to the narrative it had been a spontaneous protest that had evolved from the video, that had sparked it in benghazi that led to the tragic deaths of the ambassador and the three others, and that, of course, proved not to be accurate, a lot of tension with the cia over that and there is a suggestion that because there's a strong interest in susan rice being prepared, if the president chooses to nominate her to replace hillary clinton when she steps down, be that they need to clean that up in susan rice's benefit and that there could be some finger pointing at the cia, mark? >> for all the focus on the fiscal cliff and understandably so, the biggest issue by far the president and congress face in the next couple months the president will have to remake his foreign policy team. needs a new secretary of state, needs a ne

mark halperin -- >> it's making nbc history, no doubt. >> i think it is. brokaw did just give us a pat on the back. mark inside the lavatory. mark tha mark, thanks so much. >>> according to a new study, the average annual premium for family coverage through an employer is more than $15,000. that's up 9% from just last year and twice as much as the same coverage would have cost ten years ago. study suggests costs are riser faster than the u.s. wages. renewing debate over the impact of president obama's 2010 health care overhaul law. in response, the white house defended the law saying the kaiser report is informative but a look backwards. when we look to the future, we know the affordable health care act will help make insurance more affordable for families and businesses across the country. >>> during a speech at stanford university yesterday, house budget committee chairman paul ryan reiterated his calls to repeal the administration's measure. >> badly designed government policies are to blame for much of what is wrong with health care today and the solut

let's go to new york and mark halperin. what have you learned, mark? >> if my twitter feed is any indication, and i think it is, when willie geist returns from london, he will be known forever more as mr. olympics. >> mr. olympic? he's a very popular man. >> he looks like an olympic -- >> he does. he really does. what have you learned, sam stein? >> two things, one, hillary clinton is this close to going the dougie. and if you preference anything you say with "all do respect," you can say basically anything. >> it's a will farrell tactic. "talladega nights". >> chuck? >> i was going with hillary clinton's dance moves. you know colin powell had them. i think she's the secretary of state with the most dance moves. >> yeah? what did you learn? >> i learned that we have a long way to go in this campaign and we need to clean it up fast. >> mika, what did you learn? >> i cede my time today, because you have the most important what have we learned today. >> kate scarborough, 9 years old today. happy birthday, baby, love you. i can't wait to see you very soon.

>> we'll ask mark halperin. it's one of his stories of the week. >> they're playing chicken right now. they need to come out. >> the former governor of pennsylvania and nbc news political analyst, ed rendell. what do you think about the spending? >> i i think the president should lead. he should take the leadership role because that's what people expect from a president. joe's right. the only way to touch those four is to do it together, republicans and democrats have to do it together, have to say, folks, it's time for to us tell you the truth. here's what we have to do. no bones about it. and you know, we're not going to just cut the domestic budget. president obama hinted at in t in his speech when he said it's only 12% of the entire federal budget. he started down that road but he's got to show strong leadership. it should come from the president but then it's put up or shut up time for the republican party. >> exactly. who have had a disastrous record during the bush years. we'll see if they put up or shut

harper -- if mark halperin was on the way in. we are returning to normality near the two decade average of 20. , showinghe 10 year what i would call a friday churn of the news flow. it has been asked ordinary. this,g through all of getting us perspective, has been julian a manual of ubs. julian emanuel of ubs. washington doesn't matter to the markets until it does, and when it does, it does with a vengeance. will we be surprised with a second shutdown? julian: i don't think we will be surprised by a shutdown. if we get to a point where they will bring us to the brink of debt default, as in 2011, there is real risk. the main point is that in washington, we should expect it to be a source of volatility between now and two novembers from now. .he playing field is unstable as chair yellen told us last washington matters. the underlying soundness of the the threats from the weakness in china and the emerging markets and elsewhere is -- , we all's be honest treat politicians with economics and international relations degrees differentl

mark halperin. >> halperin. >> check. >> okay, i can go to him. so mark, chuck schumer, i think, goes to great lengths to tell liberals, to tell progressives, hey, listen, you're not going to get them perfect. and you may even stop yourself from getting the good. so let's be realistic and let americans know, we don't want to take their guns away. we just want reasonable, rational limits on these assault weapons. >> you know, joe, i agree with you. if you want to move legislation in reaction to what happened in connecticut, having senators from new york and california be the face of it is not the smartest thing. but chuck schumer, go read his book, look at his as a strategist. he has been, like rahm emanuel, someone who understands that the country's not as progressive as their instincts are. and he's a great student of how to take the policies he wants to move forward and get them to be a more centrist sheen, a more centrist coalition. and i think his words to the left as well as to the center are pretty smart, and i think as a strategist, he's go

the gospel of mark halperin is it's still mitt's to lose. the the gospel of mark mckinnon is, this is the coming argument, not quite there yet, the mark mckinnon argument is that newt is inevitably moving up and he can't be stopped. he's the s.o.b. they've been looking for under their christmas tree. coming up -- that's my words. >>> anyway, coming up, mitt romney says his business background means he's the best republican to beat obama. still, but what happens kfx"áju is an if, the economy really starts to perk up, as it's begun to do the last few days. is mitt still the one to tinker in your hood if the car's running? you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. >>> listen to what president obama told supporters at a fund-raiser last night in new york city. according to the "new york daily news," the president said, "it's time for us to refocus and make sure we understand that change we can believe in was never ç going to be change overnight. rather, it's going to be a slow, steady progression during which this aircraft carrier that we ca

joining us from tampa is "time" magazine and msnbc senior political analyst, mark halperin. mark, always good to see you. >> good to see you. this is my last official act before i leave tampa. no one told me it was an outdoor shot so rather than wearing my red sox teeshirt, i'm dressed as if i'm going on a job interview. >> we were wondering where is that red sox teeshirt, why does he look like he's going on a job interview. nonetheless, give us your best job interview answer to this question, which is did romney effectively appeal to independents last night? that seems to be his target audience and i would like to know what your grade is. >> well, on that score and that's really the main goal that they have and it's a particular class of independents, those who voted for the president last time, like him personally but have questions about whether he's up to the job, whether re-electing the president would produce the kind of tangible change in direction they're looking for. i thought the best lines in the speech, the most memorable ones, the ones that had the most resonanc

karen hughes and john podesta and reporters mark halperin and bob woodward. "what do you mean homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods?" "a few inches of water caused all this?" "but i don't even live near the water." what you don't know about flood insurance may shock you. including the fact that a preferred risk policy starts as low as $119 a year. for an agent, call the number on your screen. >>> we are back and joined by former chief of staff to president bill clinton john podesta and former counselor, senior adviser to president george w. bush, ambassador karen hughes, bob woodward of "the washington post" and mark halperin of "time" magazine and author of "game change." welcome to all of you. so much to get to. the horrible circumstances in haiti, on the cover of "newsweek" the president himself writing the cover story, why haiti matters. karen hughes, you've seen disaster response up close as part of the bush administration. is it too early to make any evaluation of how well it's going so far, how well the government is mobilizing? >> i think all of t

we've just heard the first of the "meet the candidate" series, mark halperin, with newt gingrich now a candidate. what did we learn? >> he knows what he has to do to win, and amongst it, he responded to your questions, he has to not be an analyst, has to not be a gad fly, as he said. he's got to be a leader, plal leader, and a politician. not talk like speaker of the house or a fox news analyst, talk like a potential president. i think he's in the field an underrated candidate in terms of his chances and he showed that with his strength. >> do you think he dialed back the reputation as not just an analyst, but as a flame-thrower? i mean, talking about obama and anticolonial views, about anti-americanism, talking about the left as, you know, that has to be saved, to akin to nazi germany and the soviet union. i mean, that's language. >> the animating force in the republican party today is be in barack obama's face, an aggressive, be out to destroy his presidency. newt gingrich has a complicated problem. he needs to inhabit that space, which he naturally does, at the same time, he needs

mark halperin is comanaging editor of bloomberg politics. he is with "all due respect" that is seen at 5:30 p.m., and it should go to two hours long. mark, we are 20 months away. i want to know what will be different on as we go 20 months to 18 month and so forth. what can we glean that will be different in this ballet? mark i don't see a lot of -- mark: i don't see a lot of macro trends that will be different. what is different is that historically, democrats are used to having an open fight. this time, they have one candidate. and their publicans have an obvious front-runner, but in the wings they have 16 to 18 candidates. tom: and there is one misogynist shock to secretary clinton. olivia: there's not much debate within the party on who will be the candidate. and we are all waiting on secretary clinton to throwing her hat. she's not quite ready to do so but here is what she had to say. hillary clinton: we want to see more women running for congress will follow in the footsteps of her ski and champion equal pay and -- of barbara mikulski a

karen hughes and john podesta and reporters mark halperin and bob woodward. >>> we're back. joined by former chief of staff to president bill clinton john podesta and former counselor, senior adviser to president george w. bush, ambassador karen hughes, bob woodward of "the washington post" and mark halperin the author of "game change." welcome to all of you. so much to get to. the horrible circumstances in haiti, on the cover of "newsweek"he president himself writing the cover story, why haiti matters. karen hughes, you've seen disaster response up close as part of the bush administration. is it too early to make evaluation of how well it's going so far, how well the government is mobilizing? >> i think all of the american people want our government to do exactly what our government is doing, that is try to get help to those people as quickly as we possibly can. i have been through disasters, we had the tsunami in indonesia, the earthquake in pakistan, i traveled there shortly thereafter. all of the american people, i think it's a wonderful picture for the world to see two

mark halperin wants to answer. i'll shut up now. >> i think the question -- the biggest question looming over the race, is rick perry someone who is going to be seen as that kind of candidate or the kind of candidate that people like your dad would support as someone who has very conservative views, very much in line in a lot of ways with bachmann, but still someone who can appeal to the center and seem like someone who can be nominated and elected? >> my dad would be a hell of a lot more likely to vote for rick perry, somebody that actually ran something for ten years, one of the largest states in america, than he would michele bachmann tip of what sphere, chris hayes? >> i'm going to say i felt the way you felt about michele bachmann before you said it, about what she is. that's why tim pawlenty, going after her made him look stupid. chris hayes? >> i think pawlenty going after her on her record or lack thereof misses the point. he miss it is point about what the nature of the michele bachmann candidacy is. >> sh

. >> mark halperin has a question for you in washington. mark? >> obviously sometimes people look at the cuts and say the sky is falling. can you talk about where you are concerned? perhaps the cuts may hurt americans lives, if anywhere? >> no. i think we are actually doing exactly what we said to do to protect americans. we are spending more money, for example on the border. we are spending money on law enforcement generally. you see a reduction in the department of justice, the amount of money they have to

i'm not sure they need one. >> mark halperin, it's interesting. part of that analysis is, hey, santorum's good for us. we keep it expanded, take that field to south carolina, he'll go after rick perry if perry can stay in the race, better for romney. if the issue is who is the stalwart conservative, did rick santorum help himself this morning in the final push? >> i think he had a convoluted answers to two your questions. one about his support for mitt romney four years ago and also on rape and incest exceptions to abortion when he was running in president. right now i see two buckets of scenarios. scenarios that are great for mitt romney and scenarios that are good or decent for mitt romney. they would love to leave here for the top three, in whatever order, paul, santorum or romney because they believe they will never lose in the long run and maybe even the medium run to santorum or paul. gingrich and perry represent bigger threats for them. and i think the worst case for romney is if one of those two guys surges in the last few days. no indicat

what did you think about mark halperin and john heileman's presentation? >> caller: it was the only entertaining but it was very informative. but like several other callers i was disturbed. i live u lived up the road a lie further up the road and attended many of the miami book fairs and there's usually a very high diversity of speakers including this year i think that dick cheney kicked off the events. so i think that they are doing a good job. it's. >> all right, charlie thinks for calling in from florida. all the calls from florida they know what a beautiful day it is on the east coast of florida. you can see it on the screen in just a minute. this is live from miami. this is the 30th annual miami book fair international and at the 15th year on the air. and we have covered this festival life, a portion of it i should say for all 15 years it's about a weeklong festival, hundreds of thousands of authors attending and the last caller was correct, dick cheney was here yesterday morning. he was not in the room that we are covering, so unfortunately we were n

with us, senior political analyst for "time" magazine, mark halperin. writer for "vanity fair," and co-author of "all the devils are here" about the financial crisis, bethany mclean. and two members of congress from illinois, democrat luis gutierrez, and republican aaron schock. >>> good morning, a week in politics defined by anger and resentment over the state of the economy, and income inequality as protesters behind the occupy wall street movement bring their message to new york. and to here in chicago, the president expressed his support for their views. >> i think people are frustrated, and, you know, the protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works. >> while the house republican leader was critical of their taxes. >> if you read the newspapers today, i for one am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying wall street, and the other cities across the country. and believe it or not, some in this town have actually condoned the pitting of americans against americans. >> as popust ange

thank you. >> so mark halperin, take us back to your moment. >> it is a charming moment. it's one of the rare moments where sarah palin seemed a little bit nervous walking out on that stage. as she said in the debate, she did pretty well and found her voice. she did refer to him as o'ed bi in debate prep and they were worried that would be branded as a gaffe and inability to think on her feet coming off the katie couric interview she did. a series of interviews with katie couric that hadn't gone well and had exposed for some viewers and voters, weaknesses in governor palin's ability to think on her feet and be knowledgeable about things. for most candidates it would be seen as a funny gaffe. they were worried it would take on larger symbolic meaning if she said it in the debate. call him joe. she said i don't know. how can i call him joe? so she decided to ask him for permission to do that. the irony is in the debate while she did sometimes call him joe, she did reforehim as o'biden. it didn't really get any attention at the time even though she made the very gaffe she'd

what a pretty shot that is. >> gorgeous. >> mark halperin is still with us. joining us at the table, editor and chief of "the daily beast" and "newsweek" tina brown back with us. >> i understand what tim pawlenty is saying because hillary clinton was saying one thing. the envoy was saying another thing, robert gibbs was saying another thing. sometimes in foreign policy it's very complex. sometimes you don't want america speaking with one voice. sometimes, and i know this will be shocking the a lot of people out there. but when you're dealing with a 30-year ally that you want out, sometimes you play both sides. and i think the obama administration played both sides masterfully. i love the stories after he's gone, hillary clinton was off on her own and this envoy was off on his own, wisner was off on his own. the state department was telling mubarak it was going to be okay. the other side of the administration was trying to push him out. when he got out, the administration can say we're with you all the time and those rascals at the state department. if mubarak

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mark halperin? >> greta, we knew that one of the challenges of writing a book about politics in a state of age a lot of our political discourse to the media and politics directly has become very partisan. we're trying to write a book and we hope we did, that is not person. because there is nothing here that was not ever reported, not just the caller suggested about the democrats there's it stuff never report about the republicans. we are heartened by the fact that the book is received praise from people on the left and the right. john hannity said some very nice things about the book as did head shows that i think the strength of the book, the extent it has one in this realm, as we reported everything we could find that we thought was germane to telling the story about both parties, candidates in both parties, without fear of or favor and with an eye toward history and a looming what happened. not covering things up. there has been a concern, i was just a quickly, why wasn't the stuff report in real

journalists john heilemann and mark halperin. featuring the 8g band with stanton moore. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers! >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers, this is "late night." how's everybody doin' tonight? [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: that's fantastic. let's get to the news. a crowd at a recent bernie sanders campaign event erupted in cheers when a bird landed on sanders' podium mid speech. the bird stayed for a couple of minutes and then returned to its nest. [ laughter ] the march madness final four is now set and the teams are villanova, oklahoma, north carolina and syracuse. or as they're known in your bracket, dammit, dammit, yes and dammit. [ laughter and applause ] donald trump's campaign manager, corey lewandowski has been charged with battery after new video surfaced of an incident in which he violently grabbed a reporter at a recent rally. surely this is going to make a dent in trump's poll numbers. son of a bitch. [ laughter and applause ] donald trump in an interview supported

. >>> mark halperin will look in the number and tell us how much longer newt gingrich will stick around. for now, mitt romney is headed west kicking off the campaign push in nevada and minnesota after the decisive win over newt gingrich in the florida primary. with 50 more delegates in his column, the former massachusetts governor cemented his status as the front-runner. 30 minutes after the polls closed, he thanked the crowd in tampa before turning his attention toward the general election. >> in a state of the union address the president actually said these words, he says let's remember now how we got here. don't worry, mr. press ent, we remember exactly how we got here, you won the election. leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. another era of american crisis, thomas payne is reported to have said lead, follow or get out of the way. well, mr. president you were elected to lead. you chose to follow and now it's time for you to get out of the way. >> romney responded to suggestions the bitter fight with gingrich could hurt the party chances in november. 92% of

i believe with mark elsewhere in the spin room. mark halperin out there. man, partner. he usually doesn't have a trouble talking. >> it does not upset me to see her, it disgusts me. but yeah. he is such a bio person. -- vile such a bio peson. >> who got you out tonight? >> i think it was breitbart to give me the invitation. [indiscernible] >> an extraordinary moment in the spin room to have someone who is coming here to accuse the former president of the united states of sexual assault. she has done it in the past, but to come and do it as part of the republican nominee campaign is extraordinary. emotional for anyone watching to see the kind of accusations being made. started making accusations about physical acts versus donald trump's words. it is quite something. the spin. trump in room here. there is a lot emotion hand and intensity here. let me go back to you. john: that was market alpern in the spin room -- that was mark halperin and the spin room talking to when either broderick. to --king to one knee talking to juanita' >> i don't think trump did anything tonight

mark halperin, he will sto this. he can't criticizearack obama on one hand for turning a blind eye to assad's chemical weapons in 2012 and allow it to happen in 2017 and do absolutely nothing while this holocaust unfurls before our eyes. >> why is this such a big week? he's dealing with three of the most retractible foreign policy challenges, how to get north korea to stop having missiles and nuclear weapon, how to get china to stop taking advantage of the united states and the economy, and how to get the syrian civil war to end, how to get assad out of power and russia's influence there to diminish? in all those cases, the onus is on him now. he doesn't like how president dealt with those three issues. this is the week when he's got an opportunity, if you want to put it in a different way, to say it's not a crisis, it's an opportunity. this is his opportunity to say, i didn't like what president obama did on those three issues, i'm going to do it differently. the statements yesterday didn't show roadmap to how he'll